Hello, there.
I've been really wanting a good electric mandolin for a while now, however most "good" emandos seem to be well out of my price range (being a college student, I haven't much in the way of extra cash). So as I was surfing the internet the other day and browsing various instruments, I had an idea. Since I could not afford a good quality emando, than perhaps I could buy a short-scale electric guitar. Their scale lengths seem to be between the octave mandolin and mandola, and so I figured that perhaps I could tune it EACGDA (the highest four strings being the same tuning as that of a mandola) using the highest four strings for more melody and solo parts and the low EA strings for power chords or something along those lines. Does this sound like a good idea?
Btw, the short scale guitar I was looking at to try this experiment on is the ESP LTD Kirk Hammett Junior Electric Guitar (I found it on musiciansfriend.com); it seemed to have the best reviews for all the short scale guitars (on that website at least) and with a little bit of saving and maybe a few more hours of work a week, I can make it fit into my budget. I also figured that, given the reviews, that even if my mandola/guitar hybrid tuning doesn't work out, I'm still left with a fairly good guitar.
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